November/December 2002
Table of Contents
Special
Report: The Fall and Rise of Magazine Writing
- Does Size Matter?
For young readers, how long is too long? By Michael Scherer - The Curse of Tom Wolfe
What went wrong for the magazine story. By Michael Shapiro - Atlantic Rising
What make a serious magazine soar? By Scott Sherman - Now Read This
Ten young writers on the rise. By Liz Cox - Finds
Magazines you shouldn't miss. By Adeel Hassan - Draft Picks
Ten young editors to watch. By Ana Marie Cox - Time Inc.'s AOL Problem
Emerging from — and covering — a "train wreck" of a merger. By Neil Hickey - Q & A with Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time Inc.
Articles
- The Mission
Searching for the Perfect J-school By Brent Cunningham - Q & A with Lee Bollinger, Columbia University's president
- Strange Brew
Narco News's rants, theories, and scoops. By Jay Cheshes - TV Stalkers
For local TV personalities, a problem not talked about. By Mark Francis Cohen
Currents
- In Review: The New New Media
- Interviewing: Was This Food Fight Fair?
- Books: How Slippery is Slander?
- Obits: The Final Deadline Club
- Art Critics: What's OK/What's Not
Voices
- Gwen Shaffer
Grant-Distorted Journalism at WHYY - Hilary Burke
Suing Ashcroft for Access - Trudy Lieberman
Political Framing and Prescription Drugs - Geneva Overholser
Why Don't We Know What the World is Thinking? - Carla Sapsford
Standoff: Native Americans and the Anglo Press - Phil Primack
Writer's Rights: My Disappeared Stories - Edith Pearlman
Essay: Saved by the Button
Book Reviews
- Scotty: James B.
Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism
By John F. Stacks. Reviewed by Richard Norton Smith - Rupert Murdoch:
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Media Wizard
By Neil Chenoweth. Reviewed by Diana B. Henriques - Book Reports
By James Boylan
Departments
- Opener
- Darts & Laurels
- Language Corner: Tripping over Latin Roots
- Technology Corner
- Letters
- The Lower Case
